Call For Papers

The DisCoTec series of federated conferences is one of the major events sponsored by the International Federation for Information processing (IFIP). The main conferences, taking place on June 2-4, 2015 at Inria Grenoble–Rhône-Alpes are:

COORDINATION 2015 is the premier forum for publishing research results and experience reports on software technologies for collaboration and coordination in concurrent, distributed, and complex systems. The key focus of the conference is the quest for high-level abstractions that can capture interaction patterns and mechanisms occurring at all levels of the software architecture, up to the end-user domain. COORDINATION 2015 seeks high-quality contributions on the usage, study, formal analysis, design, and implementation of languages, models, and techniques for coordination in distributed, concurrent, pervasive, and multicore software systems. This edition also additionally seeks to adapt and integrate traditional COORDINATION techniques in the realm of multi-agent systems (MAS), which typically involve more corse-grained (cognitive, intelligent, goal-oriented) components.
Main topics of interest:

Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP’s codes of conduct). The submissions must not exceed the page number limit (see below), including figures and references, prepared using Springer’s LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without review.
Papers should be submitted as PDF or PS via EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2015.

We solicit three kinds of submissions:

- Full papers* (up to 16 pages): Describing thorough and complete research results and experience reports.
- Short papers* (up to 8 pages): Describing research results that are not fully developed, or even manifestos, calls to action,
personal views on the past of Coordination research, on the current state of the art, or on prospects for the years to come.
- Posters* (up to 3 pages): Summarising research projects worth being advertised and discussed in a lively fashion at the conference.

The conference proceedings, formed by accepted submissions of all three kinds above, will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series.

DAIS’15 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or experimental results in the area of distributed applications and interoperable systems. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:

All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted electronically as PDF, using the Springer LNCS style to the conference submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dais2015

Each paper will undergo a thorough process of peer reviews by the Program Committee. All papers accepted in any of the conference tracks will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Proceedings will be made available at the conference. Submission implies that at least one author will register and attend the conference if the paper is accepted.

FORTE 2015 is a forum for fundamental research on theory, models, tools, and applications for distributed systems. The conference solicits original contributions that advance the science and technologies for distributed systems, with special interest in the areas of:

Contributions that combine theory and practice and that exploit formal methods and theoretical foundations to present novel solutions to problems arising from the development of distributed systems are encouraged. FORTE covers distributed computing models and formal specification, testing and verification methods. The application domains include all kinds of application-level distributed systems, telecommunication services, Internet, embedded and real-time systems, as well as networking and communication security and reliability.
Main topics of interest

Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP’s codes of conduct). The submissions must not exceed 15 pages in length, including figures and references, prepared using Springer’s LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without review. Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf via the FORTE’15 interface of the EasyChair system. Each paper will undergo a peer review of at least 3 anonymous reviewers. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series. The best papers will be invited after the conference to contribute to a special issue of a top-level journal (e.g. TCS or Information & Computation).

DisCoTec 2015 invites proposals for one-day workshops to be part of the joint event. DisCoTec 2015 hosts conferences in the area of coordination languages, distributed systems, and formal methods for distributed systems, ranging from practice to theory. We invite workshops in these areas to provide a vivid and open forum for discussions, presentations of preliminary research results and ongoing work as well as presentations of research work to a focused audience. One-day workshops will be held in conjunction with the main events. Prospective workshop organizers are requested to follow the guidelines below and are encouraged to contact the workshops chair (Sophie Quinton) if any questions arise.

Submission and notification deadlines of the workshops are at the discretion of the individual workshop organizers, however notification must be no later than the early registration deadline for DisCoTec.
Proposal Submission Guidelines

Workshop proposals must be written in English, not exceed 5 pages with reasonable font and margin, and be submitted in PDF format via email to

Sophie Quinton (sophie.quinton AT inria.fr).

Proposals should include the following information:

- The title, theme, and goals of the workshop.
- The targeted audience and the expected number of participants. We prefer that
workshops remain open to participation from any members of the community, but
by-invitation-only workshops will also be considered. Please explicitly state your
preference.
- The publicity strategy that will be used by the workshop organizers to promote the
workshop.
- The participant solicitation and selection process.
- Publication plan. Each workshop is responsible for managing its own publication
(e.g., pre- and/or post- proceedings), if any is desired.
- Approximate budget proposal (see Budget section below for details).
- A preliminary version of the call for papers, which must include important dates
(e.g. submission, notification, and camera-ready deadlines).
- The equipment and any other resource necessary for the organization of the
workshop; and whether a poster session is planned.
- A brief description of the organizer’s background, including relevant past
experience on organizing workshops and contact information.

Acceptance will be based on an evaluation of the workshop’s potential for generating useful results, the timeliness and expected interest in the topics, the organizer’s ability to lead a successful workshop, and potential for attracting participants.
Workshop Publicity

Workshop publicity is responsibility of the workshop organizers. In particular they are in charge of:

- Providing a workshop description (200 words) for inclusion on the DisCoTec 2015
website.
- Hosting and maintaining web pages either on the DisCoTec 2015 website or linked from
it.
- Editing workshop proceedings, if any.
- Publicising the event.

Budget

DisCoTec 2015 will provide registration and organizational support for the workshops. Registration fees must be paid for all participants, including organizers and invited guests. To cover lunches, coffee breaks and basic organizational expenses, all workshops will be required to charge a minimum participation fee (to be determined). Each workshop may increase this fee to cover additional expenses such as publication charges, student scholarships, costs for invited speakers, etc. All fees will be collected by the DisCoTec organizers as part of the registration and will be used to cover the expenses of each workshop as agreed with the workshop organizers.